Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are divorcing after two years of marriage.
Lopez filed for divorce on Tuesday within the Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, in accordance with court docket paperwork seen by the BBC.
The pair – dubbed Bennifer by tabloids – formally tied the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022 and held a bigger marriage ceremony ceremony in Georgia the next month.
Their romance started after they met whereas engaged on the set of the 2003 crime caper Gigli. That they had initially deliberate to marry that yr, however referred to as off their relationship early in 2004.
Nearly 20 years later they rekindled their relationship.
“Love is gorgeous. Love is type. And it seems love is affected person. Twenty years affected person,” Lopez mentioned in 2022 after asserting the Las Vegas marriage ceremony.
The BBC has contacted their representatives for remark.
A court docket submitting within the case says Ms Lopez – who legally modified her final identify to Affleck – or her lawyer has to inform Mr Affleck with a duplicate of her petition to dissolve their marriage.
Media stories point out Lopez didn’t checklist any particulars of a prenuptial settlement in her petition for divorce, doubtlessly establishing a authorized battle over the pair’s fortunes.
A doc filed in LA’s Superior Court docket as a part of the divorce case says each Lopez and Affleck should share monetary data, together with their present earnings, bills, properties and money owed.
The doc says each are mandated to reveal any adjustments to their funds “till there’s a remaining settlement about all monetary points in your case”.
The court docket gave Lopez 60 days to file a monetary disclosure and Affleck may have one other 60 days after she submits her data to do likewise.
The submitting says if both fails to report or replace monetary data, it might lead to a court-imposed sanction.
There was months of hypothesis over their relationship. They reportedly put their Beverly Hills mansion up on the market at $65m (£50m) and had been pictured out individually not carrying their marriage ceremony rings.
Affleck, 52, was beforehand married to the actress Jennifer Garner, who he met on the set of 2001 romance Pearl Harbor. They break up in 2015 after a decade of marriage and have three youngsters collectively.
Lopez has been married 4 instances, first to Cuban-born waiter Ojani Noa from 1997-98; then her former back-up dancer Cris Judd from 2001-03; and to singer Marc Anthony, with whom she had twins, from 2004-14.
The singer and actress, generally known as J.Lo, was additionally as soon as engaged to New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.
